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RUNTIME
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Tight 12-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.
MoodPlayr · trivia#01
Chicken Thing
"What evil lurks in the hearts of domestic furnishings?"
1985 0h 12m EN
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10.0
MASTERPIECE
★10.0TMDB · 1
Drama
Synopsis
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Bobby goes to bed, with a thunderstorm raging outside. He listens to music and reads a comic book before lights out, then the storm causes the electricity to fail. A huge chicken-like creation assembles itself from various items inside Bobby's room. Is Bobby's imagination running wild, or is this really happening?
“What evil lurks in the hearts of domestic furnishings?”
Cast
Bobby Nellesen
Billy
Connie Evans
Mother
Carrie Shaw
Sister
Dana Rhys
Father
Credits
Behind the camera
- Director
- Todd Holland
- Writers
- Todd Holland
- Countries
- United States of America
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Cinephile deep dive
The take
Todd Holland directs. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in United States of America.
Trivia
Things worth knowing
- 1Tight 12-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.
- 241 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.
- 3Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.
- 4Bobby Nellesen and Connie Evans and Carrie Shaw carry the top of the cast.
- 5Marketing tagline: "What evil lurks in the hearts of domestic furnishings?".
- 6IMDB entry: tt0236099 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
- 7Only 1 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.
The technical file
- Runtime
- 12 min · 0h 12m
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- EN
Also by
Todd Holland
Production companies
Who made it
- UN
University of California Los Angeles
US
Key crew
Release history · US
When it landed
- Physical1985-01-01
